We’ve come so far and yet some things never change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25J3u3P-HHg

JD Vance is probably among us as we speak. He could be any username…

Is he you?

I wish, but no.

Covert conversion therapy by setting you up with the absolute worst humanity has to offer.

Fyi our album is now on streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple, Youtube, etc) under Constellation ATX.

Most of the time, if I’m listening to anything, it’s a playlist of Boards of Canada on shuffle - usually while I work.

Otherwise, my music taste is pretty stalled these days wrt new music. Unwound got back together and I saw a couple of their shows, one in LA and another in Austin. The Blood Brothers also reunited and I have a ticket to see them in Dec. Melt-Banana just released a new album I haven’t listened to yet.

My friend’s band, Yuppie Killer, released their discography on streaming sites. They’re a hardcore punk band of expats in South Korea from 2012-2017.

I play in a band, Constellation, and we’re sending our first album to be mastered this week. Kind of throwback to 90’s post-hardcore like Fugazi (yeah, we got cowbell) and Drive Like Jehu. Really excited about it.

The details of how the software was programmed should be legally irrelevant.

Why? Programmers should be legally liable for what they program.

watching Austin Energy capping my A/C and deciding to become a rabid supporter of Yud’s call to airstrike data centers

Christ, there’s so much backstory here - just scrolling through long descriptions of Gerard’s views and just thinking “based, based, based, based.”

In its reaction against both EA and AI safety advocates, e/acc also explicitly pays tribute to another longtime Silicon Valley idea. “This is very traditional libertarian right-wing hostility to regulation," said Benjamin Noys, a professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester and scholar of accelerationism. Jezos calls it the “libertarian e/acc path.”

At least the Italian futurists were up front about their agenda.

“We’re trying to solve culture by engineering,” Verdon said. “When you’re an entrepreneur, you engineer ways to incentivize certain behaviors via gradients and reward, and you can program a civilizational system."

Reading Nudge to engineer the ‘Volksschädling’ to board the trains voluntarily. Dusting off the old state eugenics compensation programs.